js535’s most recent Quotables

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot live in the cradle forever.

Princess Leia: Why, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking Nerf herder.
Han Solo: Who's scruffy-looking?

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.

Prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them along with this slice of humble pie that comes direct from the oven of shame, set at gas mark egg on your face.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.

I exist to win.

Why isn’t my life like a situation comedy? Why don’t I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but drop by and instigate wacky adventures? Why aren’t my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms? Why don’t my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well being when I have problems? …I gotta get my life some writers.

I have a hammer! I can put things together! I can knock things apart! I can alter my environment at will and make an incredible din all the while! Ah, it’s great to be male!

This one’s tricky. You have to use imaginary numbers, like eleventeen …

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Girls are like slugs – they probably serve some purpose, but it’s hard to imagine what.

It’s only work if somebody makes you do it

Einstein: "God does not play dice"
Bohr: "Don't tell God what to do with his dice"

[of quantum mechanics] Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.